{"title":"We Now Walk Into the Wild: A Rewilding Dialogue","authors":"Sarah Hunter, Mia Arundel","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70102","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper presents a dialogue on the meaning and uses of rewilding, with a focus on Britain, from the perspectives of an ecologist and human geographer. Inspired by Barry and Maslin's (2016) dialogue on geoscientific and political conceptions of the Anthropocene, this dialogue does not seek a universal definition, but to deliberate on interdisciplinary approaches to ecology and wilderness. In the context of rising land use tensions in Britain, the dialogue traverses the concepts of historical baselines, experimental conservation, resilience, cultural understandings and autonomy. Amongst the differences in approach and research interests, the discussion on environmental discourse emphasises the imperative for interdisciplinary collaboration in approaching the question of rewilding.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"13 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9000,"publicationDate":"2026-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70102","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Geo-Geography and Environment","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/geo2.70102","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"GEOGRAPHY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper presents a dialogue on the meaning and uses of rewilding, with a focus on Britain, from the perspectives of an ecologist and human geographer. Inspired by Barry and Maslin's (2016) dialogue on geoscientific and political conceptions of the Anthropocene, this dialogue does not seek a universal definition, but to deliberate on interdisciplinary approaches to ecology and wilderness. In the context of rising land use tensions in Britain, the dialogue traverses the concepts of historical baselines, experimental conservation, resilience, cultural understandings and autonomy. Amongst the differences in approach and research interests, the discussion on environmental discourse emphasises the imperative for interdisciplinary collaboration in approaching the question of rewilding.
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Geo is a fully open access international journal publishing original articles from across the spectrum of geographical and environmental research. Geo welcomes submissions which make a significant contribution to one or more of the journal’s aims. These are to: • encompass the breadth of geographical, environmental and related research, based on original scholarship in the sciences, social sciences and humanities; • bring new understanding to and enhance communication between geographical research agendas, including human-environment interactions, global North-South relations and academic-policy exchange; • advance spatial research and address the importance of geographical enquiry to the understanding of, and action about, contemporary issues; • foster methodological development, including collaborative forms of knowledge production, interdisciplinary approaches and the innovative use of quantitative and/or qualitative data sets; • publish research articles, review papers, data and digital humanities papers, and commentaries which are of international significance.